If the United States has any hope of strengthening its cybersecurity defenses, the solution begins and ends with trained talent. One cybersecurity training program in Virginia has just expanded nationally in an effort to train more students, especially at the high school level, to defend against cyberattacks. Started in 2016, the Virginia Cyber Range had ...

Even for large corporations, cloud migration is not always a simple task. For information technology organizations at institutions of higher learning, there are plenty of barriers in a move to the cloud, with legacy systems being right near the top of the list. “If there’s one thing in my time in higher education that I ...

Students in Louisiana will soon be earning four-year degrees in cloud computing. Governor John Bel Edwards, in partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., announced this week that students in the Louisiana Community and Technical College System will now be able to receive an associate degree in cloud computing that will extend into University of Louisiana’s ...

When a company innovates at the speed of Amazon Web Services Inc. and generates an impressive amount of revenue in the process, there’s a lot to discuss. One conference in a given week just simply won’t do. AWS is holding two events in the U.S. this week. One is AWS Summit in New York City, headlined ...

There may be only one corporate executive in the world with the combined experience handling press relations for the president and vice president of the United States, the owner of The Washington Post, and the chief executive of the most valuable technology company in the world. Jay Carney can make that claim. As senior vice president ...

When IBM Corp. acquired object storage provider Cleversafe Inc. in 2105, it undoubtedly foresaw that the technology would be needed to manage growing volumes of enterprise data. Yet, it’s unlikely that even IBM had the ability to forecast then there would be 103 billion terabytes of information in the global data pool eight years later, ...

It doesn’t take long in a conversation with Deepak Chopra (pictured), the pioneer in personal transformation, to encounter a word he doesn’t like. He’ll push back against “alternative,” preferring “integrative” instead. Don’t say “control;” “awareness” is far better. But there is one word the physician and prolific author definitely likes: technology. Chopra wears a Fitbit ...

In February 2018, Splunk Inc. acquired Phantom Cyber Corp. for $350 million. The purchase brought Phantom’s security automation and orchestration technology into the fold and set the stage for the news this week that Splunk would partner with Amazon Web Services Inc. to roll out rapid threat detection tools. “We’ve established an integration with AWS ...

As computer systems become increasingly more complex, how does anyone really know what’s going on inside of them? More importantly, how can system managers know if there are vulnerabilities? To address these questions, Amazon Web Services Inc. has developed what its chief technical officer, Werner Vogels, recently referred to in a blog post as a ...

In the cybersecurity industry, fear sells. It’s a terrific motivator for top information-technology executives to purchase the latest security tools in an effort to keep infrastructure safe and avoid the unemployment line. However, there is a growing sense among some security practitioners that baking security into technology from the start could go a long way ...